Arvi-Antti Erik Särkelä

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Särkelä

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Arvi-Antti Erik

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0000-0001-7525-7685

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03665 - Hampe, Michael / Hampe, Michael

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Immanent Critique as Self-Transformative Practice: Hegel, Dewey, and Contemporary Critical Theory
Särkelä, Arvi-Antti Erik (2017)
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy
There are two traditions of immanent social critique. One of them, prominent in contemporary Frankfurt school critical theory, regards the immanence of critique as a quality of the standard employed. Such a conception of immanent critique needs to show, prior to the concrete practice of critique, how the standard is immanent in the object of critique. Showing this is the task of a “model of immanent critique.” The other tradition, going back to Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and practiced in particular by Dewey in his later works, regards the immanence of critique as the form of critical practice itself. Because such a conception of immanent critique does not, at the outset, ask how the standard is immanent to its object, it also does not need a model licensing critical practice. Indeed, it must be inherently hostile to any attempt at modeling immanent critique because the immanence lies in the power of critical practice to transform any models it applies.
Four conceptions of social pathology
Laitinen, Arto; Särkelä, Arvi-Antti Erik (2019)
European Journal of Social Theory
This article starts with the idea that the task of social philosophy can be defined as the diagnosis and therapy of social pathologies. It discusses four conceptions of social pathology. The first two conceptions are ‘normativist’ and hold that something is a social pathology if it is socially wrong. On the first view, there is no encompassing characterization of social pathologies available: it is a cluster concept of family resemblances. On the second view, social pathologies share a structure (e.g. second-order disorder). The last two conceptions are ‘naturalist’ and hold that something is wrong because it is pathological. The third view takes it that society is the kind of substance that can fall ill – an organism. The fourth view operates with the notion of a social life that can degenerate. The four conceptions are compared along six criteria: (1) is the view plausible?; (2) is it informative (if true)?; (3) does it help define the task of social philosophy?; (4) does it take naturalistic vocabulary seriously?; (5) does it hold that pathologies share a structure?; and (6) how does it see the primacy of being wrong and being pathological?
Where Categorizations of Self and Others Meet: Some Remarks on Erik Allardt’s Theory of Struggles for Recognition between Ethnic Groups
Särkelä, Arvi-Antti Erik (2013)
Nordicum-Mediterraneum
In my paper I argue that Allardt’s use of a recognition-theoretical vocabulary is not only of interest because it precedes the Honnethian and Taylorian reference points of today’s discourse on recognition by one and a half decades, but also because it contains elements that seem unique and fruitful from the perspective of the contemporary debates on multiculturalism and conflicts of recognition. Furthermore it might be of interest in the context of an NSU Study Group that there has been a Scandinavian theory of recognition, which was worked out decades prior to our own contributions to this field of research.
Negative Organicism: Adorno, Emerson, and the Idea of a Disclosing Critique of Society
Särkelä, Arvi-Antti Erik (2020)
Critical Horizons
This article articulates the idea of a disclosing critique of society. It starts from the assumption that the curiously organicistic undertones of Adorno’s negative social ontology is part and parcel of a disclosing gesture in his social criticism. It then traces Adorno’s debate with social organicists to the point where the critical theorist’s own concept of society emerges with a claim to be critical in itself. It is argued that this critical claim is enforced by a disclosing gesture. To articulate what is at stake in this gesture of critical disclosure a parallel is drawn, and contrast made, to Emerson’s conception of disclosure as “drawing a circle around a circle”. The relationship between Adorno’s and Emerson’s conceptions of critical disclosure is complex. However, their juxtaposition allows for a distinction between two directions of critical disclosure. It will be argued that disclosing critique of society can be understood as an exemplary dissociation from alienated society by means of a creative association of empirical knowledge, poetic description and philosophical speculation by a critic standing, as it were, with one foot inside and the other outside our form of life.
Säkularisierung ohne Profanisierung? Durkheim über die integrative Kraft religiöser Erfahrung
Särkelä, Arvi-Antti Erik (2014)
Religion und Säkularisierung: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch
Immanente Kritik und soziales Leben
Särkelä, Arvi-Antti Erik (2018)
Anerkennung als assoziiertes Leben. Zur Aktualität und Aufgabe von Deweys Vorlesungen in China
Honneth, Axel; Särkelä, Arvi-Antti Erik (2019)
suhrkamp taschenbuch wissenschaft ~ Sozialphilosophie. Vorlesungen in China 1919/20
Un drama en tres actos. La lucha por el reconocimiento público de acuerdo con Dewey y Hegel
Särkelä, Arvi-Antti Erik (2018)
Autores, Textos y Temas. Filosofía ~ Las armas de la critica
Sozialphilosophie
Särkelä, Arvi-Antti Erik (2018)
Handbuch Pragmatismus
Die Sozialphilosophie ist ein relativ junges Geschäft: Der Begriff tritt erst am Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts auf, begleitet von den aufsteigenden Sozialwissenschaften, vornehmlich der Soziologie. Jedoch kommt bereits mit Rousseau und Hegel eine philosophische Betrachtungsweise des Sozialen in Sicht, deren wertender Zugriff auf die soziale Realität weder auf politischer Legitimität noch auf moralischer Richtigkeit fußt, sondern angibt, sich aus einer tieferen Quelle zu speisen: Diese neue Perspektive auf das menschliche Zusammenleben situiert sich somit jenseits von ›bloßer‹ Moral- und politischer Philosophie, indem sie beansprucht, das Ganze des Sozialen unter ihre evaluative Lupe zu nehmen (Honneth 2000; Fischbach 2016). Die nur knapp über hundert Jahre sozialphilosophischer Forschung, die uns von Georg Simmels »Parerga zur Socialphilosophie« trennen, erschienen 1894, sind von einer stetigen Auseinandersetzung nicht nur um den Gegenstand, sondern auch um die Herangehensweise und die Natur dieser Disziplin charakterisiert.
Degeneration of Associated Life: Dewey's Naturalism about Social Criticism
Särkelä, Arvi-Antti Erik (2017)
Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society

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